Topic-icon sclogin in main menu possible ?

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9 years 5 months ago #48655 by bzzarv
Hello, might be a silly question, and also I am very inexperienced with anything website makingship related.. :)
I was wondering if there is any way (that don't require coding knowledge) that I could fit the sclogin on my main menu as a button, rather then a bog module taking up space on the sides ?
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9 years 5 months ago #48660 by mel
Replied by mel on topic sclogin in main menu possible ?
Try setting the 'Login View Settings' option to Modal. This will give you a Login button to push that launches a modal popup window of the SCLogin module. You can't actually add a module as a menu link, but if your template supports any positions nearby your menu, this can accomplish what you're looking for.

All of the above is what we're doing on our sourcecoast.com website. When you are logged out of our site, you can see it in action with the Log in | Register links at the top of the page.

I hope this helps get you started.

Thanks
-Melissa
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9 years 5 months ago #48708 by webdevtim
I would like to have this capability as well.

Is SourceCoast considering making an SCLogin menu item available like they have for OpenGraph - Activity and OpenGraph - Settings?

This would be really nice, because though I can go through some hoops and re configure the menu to leave a 100 px gap on the right side it would be much more satisfying to be able to add an SCLogin menu item that would get the login menu up and out of the way of other content that needs to be displayed in the right column plus putting it in a very convenient position on every page.

Also since the menu I use, uses @Media queries to display the menu differently on different devices, having an SCLogin menu item would make it so that the login form would always display nicely regardless of what device it is used on. It is not enough that SCLogin uses Bootstrap classes so that it is responsive, it also has to be able to change position when the menu collapses to a mobile device type menu. This would be very hard to do through styling alone even with Bootstrap.
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9 years 5 months ago #48719 by alzander
webdevtim,
We have some plans to integrate better into the standard menu system for an upcoming release. However, what you're looking to do is much more difficult to work on everyone's website, and something we likely won't be doing soon. Let me explain :)

We already have plans to allow you to create direct login links to each of the social networks we support via a menu item. That way, you can create you're own "Login" drop down menu with specific menu item links Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn, for instance.

However, we're not planning to let you insert the whole SCLogin module inside a menu item because of all the issues that you just brought up: it'd be very hard to do this in a compatible way with all the available template and menu systems out there. In the case of the above, and especially on responsive sites, the best recommendation we'd have when the above is implemented is a custom menu item with links for the social networks and a final link for "standard login". That can bring the user to your fully features, responsive login page and they can enter the site that way.

I hope that helps explain, but if you feel I'm missing something, just let me know.

Thanks,
Alex
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